The Rapuhia Scarp (northern Hikurangi Plateau) - Its nature and subduction effects on the Kermadec Trench

Tectonophysics

Volumn 328, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 269-295

  Davy, B ^a   Collot, J Y ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Hikurangi plateau subduction; Margin subsidence; Tectonic erosion

Indexed keywords

EROSION; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034471265     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00211-0     Document Type: Article

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